My younger days.
Submitted by iana on Wed, 2012-05-16 19:14
I would have been 9-10 years old. My mother worked on a sheep station in NZ. The station was divided into two farms one each side of the river. we had two row boats to travel in between farms. I used to steal one and disappear for the day. I had 5 miles of this pristine river all to my self.
Perch (Red fin) trout Flounders & Kawai. I would moor in between the willows, and watch the redfin come up to my line, the water was crystal clear. We would string a gill net in the river and then had huge flounder every day for breakfast. well that was 50 years ago. Now its a commercialised fishing tour adventure park.
How wonderful was that, and I didn't appreciate it at athe time. How many redfin did I catch? lost count.
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Troy Summers
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What a pretty place to wet a
What a pretty place to wet a line...
Alan James
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Very picturesque
Where in NZ was this? Flounder for breakfast, sounds absolutely magic. They are a top feed, breakfast, lunch or dinner.
iana
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Thats the Ruamahanga river
Thats the Ruamahanga river feed from Lake Wairarapa. We had lakes or lagoons on the farm also full of eels.
Alan James
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Slippery suckers them eels
I'm not familar with the area pictured. My first guess was around Hastings. Were whitebait fritters also on the menu?
iana
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Close to the banks the
Close to the banks the whitebait or inuga (had the word but lost it.) would travel by the thosands up or down steam 24/7. The Perch (redfin) would rush in to trap them and would beach themselves. If you were in the right place at the right time, you could pick then up, but i was always too far away. The redfin would flap away on their sides to get back to the water. This is true, for the scepicts.
grayzeee
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those NZ eels are something
those NZ eels are something else. huge.
we had a tiny stream at the back of our place in kaikoura
we'd heard about some oversize ones , so we threw in some dog meat. watched them coming upstream . One stuck it's head out of the water , and we all heard it take a sniff .
they were easy as thick as a can. stuff catching them though.
It's an amazingly beautiful place.
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
Alan James
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Yep some NZ eels are big alright
When the ducks are getting sucked under there is generally a good one about.
iana
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The eels would migrate to the
The eels would migrate to the sea over a sand bar at Lake Ferry. The eels that got trapped or just too lazy to do the migration became what we called the "Ol man eels" these were big critters from memory could be 3 inches in diaameter and over a meter long. used to get stuck in the eel traps in the round neck of it.
cuthbad
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beautifull place....
beautifull place....